The HP 35, the world's first hand-held scientific calculator, which went to China about 1986.

US technology giant Hewlett-Packard has announced plans to build a manufacturing plant in southwestern China to make notebook and desktop personal computers for the Chinese market.

HP said in a statement that it had signed a memorandum of understanding with Chongqing municipality to build a factory in Chongqing in Sichuan province.

HP said the plant is expected to begin production in 2010 and would target customers in Chongqing ‘as well as other parts of China across government, public and retail sectors.’

HP opened its first office in China in 1981 and bills itself as the leading foreign manufacturer of personal computers in the country. It already has manufacturing operations in Shanghai.

It first came to China in the 1970s laying the groundwork for an eventual joint venture with China over the course of several trips by HP representatives to that country.
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Most computers are made in China

China’s IT market is projected by BMI to reach a value of more than $100 billion by 2012. Total spending on IT products and services should grow at around 12% over the forecast period as the country witnesses rapid expansion on the IT front.

Despite some concerns such as falling prices, the fundamentals supporting growth will include an expansion into Western China, rural areas and lower-tier cities, growing demand for IT services and outsourcing in key verticals, and more sophisticated demand from enterprises.

As a result of rising computer sales and internet usage in recent years, IT is being applied by enterprises to upgrade traditional technologies and enhance efficiency and value.
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China first high performance supercomputer

China’s first high performance supercomputer has rolled off the assembly line in Tianjin.

With the brand new Shuguang 5000A, China is now the second country in the world, after the United States, that can boast the ability to develop, produce and operate supercomputers. And behind it, is an investment of more than RMB200 million, and the work of over 500 scientists.

The producer of Shuguang 5000A says the supercomputer greatly enhances China’s technological competitiveness. It also marks a major breakthrough in innovation in the industrial sector.

The Tianjin Municipal government provided RMB50 million for the project. It has also put up another RMB100 million for the second phase of the project, which will produce half a million high-speed computers.
Source: CCTV.com